AVG 8

Just FYI - ewido was acquired a long time ago (2 years). AVG8 now uses a new single engine that covers all kinds of malware. Also, it is never as easy as 'buying some database' - typically the detection engines of various products are so different that you cannot just use another database

 

The internet is messed up without AVG 8.

On a serious note, memory usage (in Vista SP1 this is the memory bar graph as the memory stats for individual processes really tell you nothing) is much lower when the web scanning component is not installed, perhaps a 60-70 mb reduction, on my system. Anyone else notice this?

 

the restore point issue in avg 8 is fixed
today there was an virus update and no restore point was made on my xp computer

robin

 

AVG just issued a fix for the link scanner problem (hopefully)
Please do the update- it takes it to 8.0.93
please test it out and see if avg link scanner stops crashing

robin

 

Boy, I sure hope it does!! The crashing was still going on for me just a couple of hours ago.

 

sad to see what 'was' such a stable program reduced to one of being inept because of 'added' features. I sure would like to see them either pull v8 or finally get it right. IMO whoever is doing there in house testing is letting them down, I hope they fix this 'finally' and correctly & just not fix to fix...

 

did you test it? I have and so far so good
link scanner seems to be loading faster and going from page to page seems to be loading faster too, so far anyway

robin

 

I recently installed Windows Cumulative Security Update for IE 7 944533 and received the following warning:
FOUND ADWARE GENERIC
HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INTERNET EXPLORER\ACTIVEX COMPATIBILITY
I put these two warnings in the virus vault and was then told by windows update that I needed to install the 944533 update again.
I installed this again and again received the warning when I scanned my system.
I have repeated this 3 times now with the same results.
Why is this update conflicting with AVG 8.0?
Tech Support has only stated so far to move the objects to the virus vault and has not addressed the conflict with Windows Update.
This version of AVG 8.0 is the current build and is updated correctly.
Thank You.

 

nope still a piece of garbage, it took over my laptop & everything just froze solid. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, it's the worst piece of software I have ever seen released & that goes back to 1989. I opened IE it froze than when I tried to close it it acted like I had spyware as multiple windows of IE started to appear. I had to do a hard shutdown. I tried to unistall in safe mode , it wouldn't. I was wondering if I was going to have to reinstall from the disks but I finally after multiple boots got to the desktop(without a freeze) & got it removed , I had to run regsupreme twice to remove all the errors. They need to start over. I will never try another version of this program...

 

robinb,
Since I installed this new update, I have not had a crash. So far, so good. I hope it stays that way! All seems to be working well!

 

Are you running a bunch of security programs from small vendors? That could be the problem. Perhaps the other programs are the cause of your angst. I am no fan boy of any security program, but you sound excessively sour on AVG, and my perception is they are trying pretty hard to get it right.

 

Installed the latest build (893 - 1283) with a fix (supplied by support) for the webshield slowdown, but again.....I could not notice any improvement in speed and I still find it way too slow to be acceptable. Too bad, but I don't understand why on earth everything must be turned over, while 7.5 just is/was as smooth as silk.

 

i just installed this new avg version and it delete all my save cokies, how can i stop that?

thanks

 

Uncheck: Scanning all cookies!

 

sorry can you please tell me where cause i was locking for that and i cant found it, thanks for you help

 

I can't say precisely, as I already uninstalled avg8 again, but just look through the configurations and you'll find it.

 

thank you i found it

 

im yet to see it even remove a cookie is that good or bad hehe?

 

Any time....

 

Depends on what you want. If you don't like to keep cookies.....just place a checkmark. It also removes tracking cookies, when the checkmark is ticked.

 

no no extra anything loading here & I actually use to like AVG but that build was terribly unstable. I got upset last night as I have license codes I would of lost on some of my games if I would of had to reformat. I should mention I run vista. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone with vista. This is worse than beta wear. If I would of reformated it would of cost me close to 75 bucks to recover codes. I think that may explain why I got carried away last night. Sorry about the post being not professional but I was really upset. My computer was terribly unstable to say the least...

 

is no bad, the problem is that you don't have the choice to keep some cookies, like this site i don't want to put my name and passw every time i come here, so for me = no good

 

avg 8 and 7 are in virus detection module fast like nod

 

If you use spybot s&D or spyblaster and are immunizing you will see an active x compatability. Just ignore them. It is a component in avg that is not compatable with these programs. It sees the active x as a possible threat but it is not.

You do not need to put them in the virus vault or delete them.
If they pop up in spyware or infections then you need to remove them.
I called AVG about this because i am seeing the exact thing and this is what they told me.
I did a test
I disabled spyblaster and took out the immunzation of spybot search and destory.
I ran another avg scan and now it showed nothing in warnings.


So again- just do nothing if you see them in the "warnings" tab

robin

 

Looks like I am ready to give up on this one as well. AVG 8 interferes with an optional feature of the power management on my Vaio notebook that cuts power to the optical drive while running on batteries. The power gets cut, but the drive stays disabled once back on AC. Its not the web scanner either. I suspect the file system drivers are at fault. Excluding the drive did not help. This behavior was observed in both XP and Vista (Veesta?).